Oh hai there! I'm killing a bit of time before going to sleep. Speaking of killing, there's this one mosquito in the room...I see it in the corner of my eyes some times. I would very much like to meet it on the battle field. I'm itchy and tired, perfect company. READ MY WORDS! Tomorrow I'm going to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander conference for Human Rights, and yes that is the short title. When I was at Amnesty the other day we had a meeting discussing the plan for the day. Got to be there around 7:30 and I'll be helping carry materials for various organisation up to a room where they will have a lot of stalls. Good opportunity to meet some people from other charities and human rights organisations.
After that my duty will be to attend the presentations and workshops, when someone in the audience has a question I'm to take a microphone over to them. It's fairly straight forward work, but it allows me the opportunity to listen to a lot of very experienced people on a pertinent information to the Homelands campaign. I expect it's going to be a fairly emotional day. On Thursday through Saturday will be the 'Change The World' Amnesty International Annual Human Rights Conference, three full days of lecture and workshops. I'll be there for all three, except for the dinner on Friday because I'm going to Oktoberfest with Carmen, Verena, David and his friends. Sunday I'm going over to Eliza's as she has offered to help me complete my MYOB assessment, I think I'll have to buy her a dinner. Oh yeah and a dinner on Saturday night that Phoebe organised. Yikes!
I know I said I wanted to be busier, but this is ridiculous! Actually I love it. It's an amazing opportunity for me to learn a lot about human rights issues, meet people in the field including getting to know my colleagues at Amnesty whom I honestly enjoy being around and getting used to working full-time again. There's so many good reasons for all of this. I cannot stress how good a time I am having. When you're working somewhere and you take money out of the equation, you're left with a group of people that are they because they're passionate not because they have to be there. I'm not saying all paid workplaces are like that, but many unfortunately are.
As I said in my last entry I am interested in starting my activist/political blog up again and I think that these conferences would be a perfect opportunity. I think what I will do is write about how it all went in this journal part and then write a few articles in a separate blog. I'll have to think further on it, because I do like to write about all the stuff that happens to me in person on this blog. I'm getting confused! :D All right, well this was a very enjoyable day off, wanted to ensure I had enough energy for the next few days by doing nothing today. I also watched through the three-part new episode of Archer, rejoice! Okay that's it, I'm going to go and design the new blog. Hugs and love.
Andy Scott
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